The effect of the Chinese medical herb decoction qu yin tang combined with ultraviolet B phototherapy on psoriasis vulgaris, and the influence on osteopontin and vascular endothelial growth factor in serum / 中华物理医学与康复杂志

Objective To observe the therapeutic efficacy of the Chinese medical herb decoction qu yin tang combined with narrow-band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) phototherapy on psoriasis vulgaris, and to investigate its influ-ence on osteopontin (OPN) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in serum. Methods Sixty patients with psoriasis were randomly divided into a treatment group and a control group. The treatment group was treated with qu yin tang and NB-UVB; the control group was treated with qu yin tang only. The levels of OPN and VEGF in serum were detected in both groups before and after treatment using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Twenty healthy persons' serum samples were taken as controls. At the same time, any changes in psoriasis area and severity index (PASI) scores in the two groups were recorded and compared. Results After 8 weeks of treatment, PASI scores and levels of OPN and VEGF had been reduced significantly in both groups, and there was a significant difference between the treatment group and the control group. Conclusions Chinese medical herbs combined with NB-UVB phototherapy is a safe and effective method for the treatment of psoriasis. The results suggested that OPN and VEGF may play an important role in the pathogenesis of psoirasis vulgaris.

THE INVESTIGATION ON BODY WEIGHT,HEIGHT,WEIGHT INDEX AND OBESITY INCIDENCE OF CHINESE PEOPLE IN FUSAN DISTRICT / 营养学报

Body weight, height, weight index as well as obesity incidence of 4780 people (male 3216, female 1564) aged from 20 to 78 including various kinds of job were investigated in Fusan district in Shandong province. The body weight and height were measured by conventional method. The weight indexwas estimated in terms of the value of weight(kg)/height(cm)2 ? 100. The correlationregression between sex, age, height and weight was calculated as well.The result showed that the average weight index ranging from 0.1933 to 0.2525 in males and 0.1951 to 0-2563 in famales was noticed. Accordingly, the incidence of overweight and obesity was 7.71% and 8.33% in males and 6.96% and 4.73% in females respectively. The correlation coefficients between weight and age (r = 0.9838 within 20-35 in age in males, r = 0.9846 within 20-50 in age in famales), and between weight and height (r = 0.9798 within 144-180cm in males, r = 0.8595 within 140-170cm in females) were highly significant.The data mentioned above were also discussed briefly.